What is the name of this tournament? Starting on Monday February 6, exactly 50 years after Muhammad Ali’s famous “What’s my name” fight, this Swiss – which turns out to be only two rounds – is divided in three sections, Crown, U1900, and U1500. The tournament runs just two Monday nights from February 6 to February 13. (Then we’re closed February 20, and the Club Championship starts February 27.)
Coincidentally, the logician and mathematician Raymond Smullyan who wrote What is the name of this book? (1978) died at the age of 97 on that very same Monday February 6. Smullyan may be better remembered in chess circles for his Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (1979) featuring “retrograde” chess problems in which previous moves of the game must be deduced from the current position.
Round One – February 6
Before the first round starts, Vinorth Vigneswaramoorthy presents a half-hour lecture titled “Chess Miniatures: the first-round knockouts of chess.” (Details will be posted.)
In U1500, three brand new unrated players join the tournament and all three make a name for themselves: Sasha Chapin defeats Evgeny Kalmanson, David Chodoriwsky defeats Alex Geddie, and Brett Kingsbury defeats Eli Teram. Meanwhile, interesting Round-1 results include Harry Chen (1425) upsetting Salim Belcadi (1641) in U1900 and, in the Crown section, Max England (2042) upsetting Dave Southam (2247), who just won the previous event.
Here is the Southam/England game:
And here’s another game, this time featuring William Li and Armand Jess Mendoza:
Round Two – February 13
Before the round, Rhys Goldstein starts the night off with a well-received lecture titled “The Magnetic Queen,” starting at 6:50 pm. In this intriguing talk, he shows a game in which former World Champion, Anatoly Karpov, uses his queen like a magnet to move his opponent’s pieces. (See the lecture notes.)
And that’s it! We’re cutting this tournament short at two rounds to make room for the six-round Club Championship ahead of our bid to host the Toronto Closed, pending GTCL approval.
Reminder: ACC is CLOSED next Monday February 20 for Family Day
Our Club Championship is a six-round event starting February 27, in two sections: Crown (min. 1700) and Reserve (under 1800).
Final Ranking cross-tables after Round 2
ACC What’s My Name Swiss Crown
Rk. | Name | Rtg | FED | 1.Rd | 2.Rd | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Humphreys Michael | 2314 | CAN | 13b1 | 14w1 | 2 |
2 | Liu Zhanhe (lambert) | 2172 | CAN | 14b1 | 8w1 | 2 |
3 | Noritsyn Sergey | 2241 | CAN | -½ | 11b1 | 1.5 |
4 | Zotkin Daniel | 2231 | CAN | -½ | 12b1 | 1.5 |
5 | England Max | 2042 | CAN | 15b1 | -½ | 1.5 |
6 | Malakhovets Sergey | 2035 | CAN | 11w½ | 15b1 | 1.5 |
7 | Akophyan Nika | 1810 | CAN | -1 | -½ | 1.5 |
8 | Li William | 2194 | CAN | 9w1 | 2b0 | 1 |
9 | Mendoza Armand Jess | 1914 | CAN | 8b0 | 13w1 | 1 |
10 | Stefanovic Miroslav | 2152 | CAN | 12w½ | -½ | 1 |
11 | Calvelo Jelvis | 2207 | CAN | 6b½ | 3w0 | 0.5 |
12 | Fines John | 1883 | CAN | 10b½ | 4w0 | 0.5 |
13 | Mcsherry Peter | 2070 | CAN | 1w0 | 9b0 | 0 |
14 | Qiao Cindy | 1901 | CAN | 2w0 | 1b0 | 0 |
15 | Southam David | 2247 | CAN | 5w0 | 6w0 | 0 |
See full results at Chess-Results.com
ACC What’s My Name Swiss U1900
Rk. | Name | Rtg | FED | 1.Rd | 2.Rd | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ab-Barin Hooshang | 1711 | CAN | 14w1 | 10b1 | 2 |
2 | Diemer Ulli | 1619 | CAN | 7b1 | 4w1 | 2 |
3 | Ramesh Bharath | 1669 | CAN | -½ | 8b1 | 1.5 |
4 | Ugodnikov Arkadiy | 1789 | CAN | 6w1 | 2b0 | 1 |
5 | Armstrong Robert J. | 1715 | CAN | 16b1 | 0 | 1 |
6 | Qiao Joey | 1475 | CAN | 4b0 | 13w1 | 1 |
7 | Jevtic Dragan | 1364 | CAN | 2w0 | 11b1 | 1 |
8 | Pei Eric | 1344 | CAN | 13b1 | 3w0 | 1 |
9 | Vigneswaramoorthy Vinorth | 1628 | CAN | 15w1 | 0 | 1 |
10 | Chen Harry (siqi) | 1425 | CAN | 12w1 | 1w0 | 1 |
11 | Teram Eli | 1077 | CAN | -½ | 7w0 | 0.5 |
12 | Belcadi Salim | 1641 | CAN | 10b0 | 0 | 0 |
13 | Gelowitz Mark A. | 1490 | CAN | 8w0 | 6b0 | 0 |
14 | David Jean-Marc | 1443 | CAN | 1b0 | 0 | 0 |
15 | Zhang Henry Xianrui | 1403 | CAN | 9b0 | 0 | 0 |
16 | Abbarin Shabnam | 1467 | CAN | 5w0 | 0 | 0 |
See full results at Chess-Results.com
ACC What’s My Name Swiss U1500
Rk. | Name | Rtg | FED | 1.Rd | 2.Rd | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Finkelstein Michael | 1291 | CAN | 9w1 | 6b1 | 2 |
2 | Chapin Sasha | 0 | CAN | 5w1 | 13b1 | 2 |
3 | Kingsbury Brett | 0 | CAN | 10w1 | 8b1 | 2 |
4 | Patton Mark A. | 1316 | CAN | 13b1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Kalmanson Evgeny | 1151 | CAN | 2b0 | 9w1 | 1 |
6 | Chodoriwsky David | 0 | CAN | 12b1 | 1w0 | 1 |
7 | Goldfarb Adam | 1384 | CAN | 11w1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | Noritsyn Ivan | 967 | CAN | -½ | 3w0 | 0.5 |
9 | Souchko Larissa | 889 | CAN | 1b0 | 5b0 | 0 |
10 | Teram Eli | 1077 | CAN | 3b0 | 0 | 0 |
11 | Stahlbrand Kevin | 1032 | CAN | 7b0 | 0 | 0 |
12 | Geddie Alex | 1133 | CAN | 6w0 | 0 | 0 |
13 | Fitzgerald Jimmy | 944 | CAN | 4w0 | 2w0 | 0 |
See full results at Chess-Results.com
On February 6, 1967, Muhammad Ali defeated Ernie Terrell in a 15-round decision, repeatedly asking his opponent “What’s my name?” during the fight. (Terrell had been calling Ali by his birth name, Cassius Clay, before their match.)
Muhammad Ali died on June 3 last summer.
Please sign me up for the next tourney (in case I don’t arrive by 7pm) !
Of course. And congratulations on winning the New Year Swiss, Dave!
Thanks! 😎
Hello,
This is Eric
Since I won the U1900 section, may I play in the Crown section for this tournament?
Thanks
Eric
That is the normal rule and I suppose one shouldn’t make exceptions, but your rating is honestly going to scare people.
In 3 rounds actually played, you posted a performance rating of about 1880, but there’s no bonus for just 3 rounds, so your updated rating will stand at just over 1300. Wow!
The good news is that rating differentials cap out at about 350, and rating losses for a single game at about 32, so there’s not much difference for a 2100 between losing to an 1800 (rating drops 28 points) and losing to a 1300 (rating drops 32 points). Same thing goes for beating an 1800 (all that work for just 4 lousy points) and beating a 1300 (all that work for 0 points).
Unfortunately, people don’t know this and I’m afraid people are going to start handing back their club memberships in fear when they see they’re paired against you.
What is to be done with a player who was rated under 900 in 2015, may well be 1800 or 1900 strength now, but has played just 23 rated games since then and is walking around maybe 500 or 600 points underrated? Is there some kind of procedure to intervene in the rating system and adjust somebody’s rating?
Thank you for your reply
I’ve asked the CFC whether there is a way to do that.
Eric
I asked Paul Leblanc at CFC. He says the only mechanisms that exist for intervention in a player’s rating involve bringing a CFC rating up to match a FQE, USCF or FIDE rating. There is no provision for over-riding the rating system. So it looks like ACC will just have to live with an underrated Eric Pei :)
Yes, there was a lot of complaining when Ramesh Bharath came in at one tournament. Even I spent a whole night playing him for 1 rating point.
Hmmmm…seems the Crown and U-1500 sections aren’t updated for the fifth round collumn (for the New Year Swiss).
Hello, me and Ivan won’t be able to make it today, can we still be registered next round and have a 1/2 BYE this round? Thanks!
Yes, Sergey. No problem.
Hmmmm…seems the second round results are not on the crosstable for the What’s My Name Swiss—maybe a good thing in my case!! 😎